The capacitive screen supports pinch to zoom, but we found this quite hit and miss. Zooming was jerky, and the text reflowing is more or less non-existent.

There's an accelerometer in the Motorola Flipout, and you can use this to switch to a slightly taller screen mode if you like when web browsing, though it probably won't do you much good. You're still going to have to do a lot of panning around to read most web pages.

Adobe Flash Lite 3 gives some chance of viewing embedded video, but there will be plenty that you won't be able to see, and the Flash abilities compromise the viewing experience too.

A dedicated YouTube client provides some respite, and over Wi-Fi we found video was quite smooth. As ever, though, the low resolution and small screen mean viewing isn't the pleasure it could be.

MOTOROLA FLIPOUT with MOTOBLUR is a compact smartphone with a touch screen that rotates, exposing a full QWERTY keypad. And while everyone's talking about its cool design, its insides will be busy using MOTOBLUR, a service that syncs your friends, messages and more with continuous updates and back-ups.